Pintures

Josep Cisquella

18/01/07. (Sala 246)

The painter Josep Cisquella exhibits his work and presents a book of his work in the Sala Vinçon.

From January 18 to February 17, 2007.

Exhibition of the painter Josep Cisquella, with a selection of paintings that covers different periods of his pictorial universe. 

Presentation of the book “Touching Reality”. In the year 2006 the galleries of the United States, Caldwell Snyder of San Francisco, Campton Gallery of New York and Trajan Gallery of Carmel have edited jointly the book titled “Touching Reality” that in more than 200 pages compiles about 150 paintings of all his pictorial series. The book contains texts by Andrés Trapiello and Jordi Gracia. It was published in San Francisco at the end of 2006 and is now presented at Sala Vinçon on January 18.

The artist develops his series with his own vocabulary. Josep Cisquella is a painter who works in a style of synthesis, a kind of material hyperrealism where, with synthetic materials, he recreates on a real scale the most everyday elements. Cisquella is an industrial engineer and has studied drawing and painting. In the execution of his pieces, the artist reveals himself as an artificer of the treatment of matter with a powerful trace of Tàpies and the informalist movement and with a clear influence of American photorealism and Pop Art. We are before a painting of thickness, of expressive texture, which is constituted with its own vocabulary as a celebration of the provocations of touch.

Shadows become the common thread. His series focus on themes that he obsessively develops: the asphalt of the city, large rusty ships, the abstraction of mathematical signs, stairs, interiors, advertisements, shadows. “I try to make the invisible visible and discover the poetic background that the most apparently humble and anodyne things possess,” says Cisquella.

The common thread that runs through almost all his collections are the shadows cast on asphalt, walls, walls, windows. Street lamps, vegetation, chairs, stairs, bicycles, compose a suggestive lyric of shadows that contrasts with the hardness of the urban ground, cracked walls and doors discolored by winds and rains. The shadows radiate an enigma between presence and absence and invite the viewer to participate, who must imagine the position of the object, its actual size and shape, etc. “By painting shadows I am actually painting their reverse, the light, specifically the intense Mediterranean light” explains Cisquella.

The painter has been exhibiting for 8 years in the U.S.A. He began exhibiting in galleries in his native Barcelona, and later exhibited in the U.S.A., France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, etc. He has participated in most European and American Art Fairs (Art Cologne, Art Frankfurt, Art Chicago, Art Miami, San Francisco Art Expo, etc). Since the late 90’s he works almost exclusively with galleries in the United States (New York, San Francisco, Carmel) where he has been well received by critics.